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Hacker News (Aug 2018)

  1. Could gambling save science? (1990)

    27 points • comment • aug 28, 2018

  2. How and When to Use ROC Curves and Precision-Recall Curves for Classification

    27 points • comment • aug 31, 2018

  3. Why is Stubbs BBQ sauce for sale in a Prague grocery store?

    27 points • comment • aug 28, 2018

  4. Step towards creating a rechargeable lithium-oxygen battery

    27 points • comment • aug 26, 2018

  5. A Bash and Python script for generating payloads that bypass virus scanners

    27 points • comment • aug 26, 2018

  6. The Birth of Video Recording (1957)

    27 points • comment • aug 11, 2018

  7. Russian Trolls Used Vaccine Debate to Sow Discord, Study Find

    27 points • comment • aug 24, 2018

  8. Climate change has doubled the frequency of ocean heatwaves

    27 points • comment • aug 15, 2018

  9. Ugliness Is Underrated: In Defense of Ugly Paintings

    27 points • comment • aug 02, 2018

  10. Hong Kong government granted US consulate a rare 999-year lease in the 1990s

    27 points • comment • aug 07, 2018

  11. OpenMetrics project accepted into CNCF Sandbox

    27 points • comment • aug 13, 2018

  12. Viewtron

    27 points • comment • aug 30, 2018

  13. Service as a SKU (2012)

    27 points • comment • aug 21, 2018

  14. The untold story of Notpetya, the most devastating cyberattack in history

    27 points • comment • aug 22, 2018

  15. Ask HN: Best way to introduce programming to a 5 year old?

    27 points • comment • aug 07, 2018

  16. How Florida's Prisons and DRM Made $11.3M Worth of Prisoners' Music Disappear

    26 points • comment • aug 09, 2018

  17. Blood uric acid level and IQ: a study in twin families (1984)

    26 points • comment • aug 20, 2018

  18. RubyKube Free Open-Source Crypto Platform

    26 points • comment • aug 14, 2018

  19. Everybody Hates Uber

    26 points • comment • aug 05, 2018

  20. Meet the ‘Change Agents’ Who Are Enabling Inequality

    26 points • comment • aug 20, 2018

  21. New study finds it’s harder to turn off a robot when it’s begging for its life

    26 points • comment • aug 10, 2018

  22. Crypocurrencies crash

    26 points • comment • aug 14, 2018

  23. Ask HN: I want to be a 40h/week intermediate developer.How do I stay employable?

    26 points • comment • aug 31, 2018

  24. Photo School

    26 points • comment • aug 15, 2018

  25. Winner’s Curse? On pace, progress, and empirical rigor [pdf]

    26 points • comment • aug 18, 2018

  26. IPOs Are Too Expensive and Cumbersome

    26 points • comment • aug 11, 2018

  27. Twitter’s Misguided Quest to Become a Forum for Everything

    26 points • comment • aug 16, 2018

  28. Why stress causes people to overeat

    26 points • comment • aug 19, 2018

  29. Ask HN: Copying already existing product and making it better

    26 points • comment • aug 03, 2018

  30. How Insulin Helped Create Ant Societies

    26 points • comment • aug 14, 2018

  31. Library of explanation and implementation of attacks on cryptographic algorithms

    26 points • comment • aug 16, 2018

  32. Google has plans to deprecate cookies over http

    26 points • comment • aug 15, 2018

  33. Intel’s 9th generation processors rumored to launch October 1st with 8 cores

    26 points • comment • aug 12, 2018

  34. Scientists Just Successfully Reversed Ageing in Lab Grown Human Cells

    26 points • comment • aug 14, 2018

  35. GraphQL, REST, RPC, Who Cares? Keep a Single Redux Store with Iguazu

    26 points • comment • aug 16, 2018

  36. An Illustrated Old English Herbal (2017)

    26 points • comment • aug 26, 2018

  37. Playing Around with Noise as Targets

    26 points • comment • aug 09, 2018

  38. The Ideological Turing Test: How to Be Less Wrong

    26 points • comment • aug 11, 2018

  39. Two curious integrals and a graphic proof (2014) [pdf]

    26 points • comment • aug 31, 2018

  40. Burning Man, a utopia for guests, was hell for many workers

    26 points • comment • aug 25, 2018

  41. Cybersecurity Firm Finds Way to Alter WhatsApp Messages

    26 points • comment • aug 11, 2018

  42. Why neovim is better than vim (2015)

    26 points • comment • aug 04, 2018

  43. The batty, explosive history of bats in the military and a new idea

    26 points • comment • aug 06, 2018

  44. Handshake: Decentralized Certificate Authority and Naming

    26 points • comment • aug 02, 2018

  45. The Fallacy of Imposter Syndrome

    26 points • comment • aug 22, 2018

  46. MALD-X Advanced Air Launched Decoy Test Is a Bigger Deal Than It Sounds

    26 points • comment • aug 28, 2018

  47. Show HN: A chrome extension that fades out old links on HN/Reddit/News sites

    25 points • comment • aug 15, 2018

  48. Crafting Interpreters

    25 points • comment • aug 26, 2018

  49. An 11-Year-Old Changed the Results of Florida's Presidential Vote at DEFCON

    25 points • comment • aug 12, 2018

  50. First 1e6 integers represented as binary vectors indicating their prime factors

    25 points • comment • aug 22, 2018

  51. Ask HN: Choosing open source project licenses when not legally-minded?

    25 points • comment • aug 01, 2018

  52. SF's housing market is so out of control, 60% of tech workers can't afford homes

    25 points • comment • aug 06, 2018

  53. Exploring Racket (2014)

    25 points • comment • aug 09, 2018

  54. Physics engine in your JavaScript program

    25 points • comment • aug 15, 2018

  55. Can Elon Musk Tweet That? The SEC May Have an Opinion

    25 points • comment • aug 08, 2018

  56. Marvel Movies Will No Longer Be Released on Netflix Starting with Captain Marvel

    25 points • comment • aug 07, 2018

  57. Don’t the Rich Deserve to Keep Their Money? (2016)

    25 points • comment • aug 12, 2018

  58. California’s strict net neutrality bill is close to final passage

    25 points • comment • aug 27, 2018

  59. The State of the Bestiary Is Stable

    25 points • comment • aug 25, 2018

  60. AI Chips: Past, Present and Future

    25 points • comment • aug 05, 2018

  61. Data Engineering Resources

    25 points • comment • aug 26, 2018

  62. TSFluff: tslint rules for the masochistic developer

    25 points • comment • aug 15, 2018

  63. U.S. denying passports to American citizens along Mexico border

    25 points • comment • aug 29, 2018

  64. State-Sponsored Trolling: How Governments Are Deploying Disinformation

    25 points • comment • aug 28, 2018

  65. Facebook exec: media firms that don't work with us will end up 'in hospice'

    25 points • comment • aug 15, 2018

  66. An O(N) Sorting Algorithm: Machine Learning Sort

    25 points • comment • aug 27, 2018

  67. Building a better apple (2011)

    25 points • comment • aug 25, 2018

  68. Princeton Science Library

    25 points • comment • aug 26, 2018

  69. The Age of Cretinism

    25 points • comment • aug 13, 2018

  70. A Disappointing New Problem with Geo-Engineering

    25 points • comment • aug 08, 2018

  71. Google struggles to contain uproar over China censorship plans

    25 points • comment • aug 03, 2018

  72. Twitter Suspends Infowars' Alex Jones for Abuse

    25 points • comment • aug 15, 2018

  73. Show HN: Comp.fyi – Open compensation data by company and level

    25 points • comment • aug 08, 2018

  74. The Berkeley Pit

    25 points • comment • aug 03, 2018

  75. Why the Brain Hates Slowpokes (2015)

    24 points • comment • aug 20, 2018

  76. The only way to end the class divide: the case for abolishing private schools

    24 points • comment • aug 24, 2018

  77. The Translucent File Service (1988) [pdf]

    24 points • comment • aug 12, 2018

  78. Lou Reed’s Archive, Coming to the New York Public Library (2017)

    24 points • comment • aug 30, 2018

  79. PixelBlock – Gmail extension that blocks email open tracking

    24 points • comment • aug 20, 2018

  80. A "once-in-a-lifetime" shot of Mount Colima during a powerful eruption

    24 points • comment • aug 13, 2018

  81. Now anyone can train Imagenet in 18 minutes

    24 points • comment • aug 10, 2018

  82. Thorium power has a protactinium problem – Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

    24 points • comment • aug 06, 2018

  83. Security incident disclosure

    24 points • comment • aug 07, 2018

  84. Show HN: An online drawing tool that lets you change colors via MIDI controller

    24 points • comment • aug 08, 2018

  85. Embedded builtins

    24 points • comment • aug 14, 2018

  86. The Soundtrack of Your Life: Muzak in the realm of retail theatre (2006)

    24 points • comment • aug 02, 2018

  87. Muslim Woman Forced to Show TSA Her Bloody Pad During Search

    24 points • comment • aug 25, 2018

  88. Blocking the rideshares

    24 points • comment • aug 02, 2018

  89. Show HN: Nion, declarative API data management library built on Redux

    24 points • comment • aug 28, 2018

  90. No amount of alcohol is good for your overall health, global study says – CNN

    24 points • comment • aug 24, 2018

  91. A modern CSS framework – versatile, well documented

    24 points • comment • aug 10, 2018

  92. No, a Teen Did Not Hack a State Election

    24 points • comment • aug 25, 2018

  93. Twitter thread reveals incredible collection of computing museum in Bozeman MT

    24 points • comment • aug 12, 2018

  94. Slack Is Awful

    24 points • comment • aug 22, 2018

  95. Newlib-nano – Embedded C library for smaller systems

    24 points • comment • aug 16, 2018

  96. Ask HN: Best books or online courses to learn networking?

    24 points • comment • aug 20, 2018

  97. As Cars Collect More Data, Companies Try to Move It All Faster

    24 points • comment • aug 18, 2018

  98. Twitter did not suspend Alex Jones or Infowars

    24 points • comment • aug 08, 2018

  99. Social Innovation from the Inside Out (2014)

    24 points • comment • aug 12, 2018

  100. Uber 'to focus on bikes over cars'

    24 points • comment • aug 27, 2018